…It is something that we are searching for. Perhaps not merely
searching for, but building.
We are being used so that we may
participate in the manifestation of that which is as yet inconceivable
for everyone, because it is not yet there. It is an expression that is
yet to come.
…These positions, the spiritual and the
‘materialist’…are insufficient, not only because they do not admit each
other, but because even admitting the two and uniting the two does not
suffice to solve the problem. There is something else – a third thing
which is not the result of these two, but something that is yet to be
discovered, which will probably open the door to the total Knowledge.
…I do not think that a single individual (on earth
as it is now), however great he is, however eternal his consciousness
and origin, can alone by himself change and realise, – change the
world, change the creation as it is and realise the Higher Truth that
will be a new world, a world more true, if not absolutely true. It
seems certain that a number of individuals (till now it appears to be
rather in time, as a succession, but it may also be in space, a
collectivity) is indispensable so that this Truth may concretise and
realise itself.
I am practically sure of it.
That is to say, however great, however conscious,
however powerful an Avatar may be, he cannot, all alone realise the
supramental life on earth. It is either a group in time, arranged in a
file in time or a group spread over a space – perhaps both – that are
indispensable for the realisation. I am convinced of it.

(Extracted from
the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo
International Centre of Education,August,
1962, pages 69-76; and L’Agenda de Mere, Vol. 1962.)

‘The symbol of the
future realisation’ is the foundation of the New Way; and this is that
‘third thing’ the Mother refers to in the above dialogue. The Mother’s
legacy provides all sincere seekers with every detail required to make
participation in the establishment of the new supramental creation on
Earth a conscious one, since this is the active ingredient
without which the required centering and its companion
alignment cannot come about. In the Atharvaveda there are important
verses that provide a clue to the deeper purpose involved in the
‘future realisation’, which once occupied a foremost place in the
Knowledge but has long since become just a distant memory, if anything
remains of it at all.

‘Though manifest, it is yet hidden, secret,
its
name is the Ancient, a mighty mode of being;
in Skambha is established all that moves and breathes. (AV X, 8)

Prior to
these Chronicles it is hard to imagine what real and non-speculative
sense could be made of these verses. Yet with Saraswati’s grace we
have been able to uncover dimensions of the Veda similar to her own
unveiling through satellite images in the mid-1980s, contiguous
indeed with the yogic realisation of Skambha itself. And thus the
ancient way is renewed, re-established in the midst of ‘all that
moves and breathes’. That is, never denying the Becoming but through
and by the passage of time, Skambha is set in place as the centre.
It holds, it creates order of everything ‘that moves
and breathes’.1The Veda are re-established only by realising that same
high truth through the same yogic processes of old – but made new
as all things are made new by the truth of that which moves.
For several millennia we have had to tolerate a denial of that
sacred Becoming in attendance of the Supramental Manifestation that
could reinstate the way of the Ancient Ones within the context of
our evolving world. In the Auroville Matrimandir we encounter a
similar denial – nay, the epitome of that negation. We see emptiness
instead of fullness; we see falsehood instead of truth by virtue of
the fact that emptiness – shunya– can never lead to Skambha
and the Cosmic Truth. And without the realisation ‘that fills the
void’, all that is un-Vedic triumphs and continues to subjugate the
land where Purnata was that Cosmic Pillar, the ‘support’ of
all the worlds, of all that ‘moves and breathes’. This is the Core’s
Pedestal of the Mother’s Vision.‘…Though manifest, it is yet hidden, secret…’ This
describes the Masked Transcendent of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri.
It is the compact Fullness of the Zero, – or 9/6/3, Transcendent,
Cosmic, Individual as the great secret of our evolving world which
is born of the Law of Three. The Transcendence, we thus realise, is
not the dissolution of nirvana, which demands a severance and
a denial of all that the soul knows to be true and eternal; indeed,
a camouflaged denial of the Transcendent itself. The word in the
supramental realisation is integration, each thing in its
place so that ‘all that moves and breathes’ can indeed be set
fast by this mighty mode of being. This is the message of
Oneness that the Earth requires at these critical crossroads of her
destiny.The realisation the Veda encourages has the power to
solve the paradoxes of our world. It brings into our conscious
experience the Beyond which until now the human species has only
been capable of knowing after death; or else by extending one’s
consciousness to its extreme limits. And thus one returns to life on
this planet again in a state of unknowing. One begins again the
journey of life seeking to recapture that knowledge of the ‘hidden
secret’. Our entire existence is a pursuit of that secret – for the
most part without any awareness that we are seeking at all, much
less what the nature of that pursuit is and its goal.In the Mother’s chamber the Core identifies the
foundation on which our life must be established so that alignment
and centering can permit a new direction in our quest. We move INWARD, the
rahasya of India, deep into the soul to find that Golden Seed
and its compact fullness in the ‘cave’, or the Transcendent as the
immanent One. This is the Core’s Pedestal and the truth of material
creation. It is the eternal quest, the secret we seek.For several millennia this direction has been denied by
an undermining of the only foundation that can permit us to sustain
the inward direction, or compression into the Point. The undermining
has been so successful that a void is left in our innermost
consciousness, a void through which we ESCAPE if the pressure of the
inward plunge is too difficult to bear. The realisation that
dismantles the undermining is simply to fill the Void. We
give birth to the One, the divine Child. It is this luminous
creature that has the power to fill the void – the very first step
on the road to immortality.2

‘I have pierced the Void where
Thought was born’ 3
The question to ask is, why was the direction changed? What caused
such a complete shift in our collective consciousness so that the
only reality for us is death and devastation? Several millennia ago
the soul was denied, the nexus holding our consciousness centred in
our world of time and space. In a word, the soul is the ‘hidden
secret’ of the Mother’s chamber because it is the stable constant
which permits us to experience the truth of that which moves. When
that high Truth became synonymous with all that is impermanent and
hence ‘unreal’, it was the demise of the way of the soul, of the
inward plunge to a Point where the Immanent One is lodged in the
‘cave’ of each individual seeker. It was the beginning of a long and
deep slumber for India, as well as for the rest of the world; or in
the language of the Greek myth, it was the rape of Persephone and
her imprisonment in the Underworld of Pluto. When we enter the true
Chamber in the ‘creative zone of the physical’, as yet one dimension
removed from our world, we see the Daughter, the third
principle which is the Soul, a vision that was kept alive in the
Eleusinian Mysteries until 396 AD. But so total has been the
rejection of this third elementin today’s Supramental
Descent that nothing of the Mother’s Vision could find acceptance
here below. Our world is a vast denial of all that the incarnate
Soul stands for – just as the Mother’s own vision was denied its
descent into our world of measure, of time and of
space. And if we cannot live the experience of the soul, this
third planet has no further purpose in our solar system. Life
evolves in this special location so that the experience can be
conscious and the bliss the soul engenders can permeate our
consciousness unhindered.Our entire global
civilisation fell under the spell of this great denial. The Goddess
was eschewed and together with her went idol worship – or simply
put, the acceptance of form as a central part of the Divine
Manifestation, of measure and by consequence of all things
born in time. After these several millennia of a deep slumber, in
this 9th Manifestation and in this Age of Aquarius, we
are born as a civilisation. We accept our place in the solar
system and the divine Purpose of this third planet from the Sun, we
give birth collectively and individually to the divine Child when
perfect centering occurs, just as the Mother’s Vision describes; for
this Child embodies that divine Purpose, the deepest secret of our
existence on Earth and the recurring theme of so many of our myths. Indeed, it is the innermost
secret of the soul itself. In the powerful imagery of the Puranic
myth, it is Guha, the divine Son ‘hidden in the cave’ (of the
heart).

‘I had hoped to build a
rainbow bridge’
The Mother has been very clear about the work she carried out since
1956; or rather, what was entrusted to her care. There were certain
boundaries to be respected that she described from time to time
after 1956. Those boundaries kept her engaged in a labour ‘on the
other side’, in the subtle dimensions though very close to the
Earth. But still not here, which means that it was not yet
rooted in this special act of Becoming. Apart from the dialogue
quoted at the top of this Chronicle, there is another that draws our
attention to the ‘boundaries’ when Supermind becomes active and
creates its own conditions of manifestation. This was her 3 February
1958 description of precisely the work she was doing ‘on the other
side’. In that dimension her experience took the form of a ship. It
was in a supramental plane but she was very clear that there was a
‘missing link’ with the physical Earth. A ‘bridge’ had yet to be
constructed linking these dimensions so that the Truth-Consciousness
could become established here. ‘When I came back, simultaneously
with the recollection of the experience I knew that the supramental
world is permanent, that my presence there is permanent, and that
only a missing link was necessary for the connection to be made in
the consciousness and the substance, and it is this link which is
now being forged…’(Emphasis ours.)It is in constructing this Bridge that time and space
and measure become active ingredients. That is the method of
rooting the Supermind in the Earth; and it is the only means. In
other words, the Divine Measure has to be re-established so that
what the Mother accomplished ‘up above’ can be brought down into
what she called an ‘intermediate zone’ (the Bridge); the Mother was
well aware of the fact that this was the ‘missing link’. And
moreover, she understood that one Avatar would not suffice and that
a ‘line in time’ was required; and perhaps in space as well. Indeed,
the Bridge does cover spatial dimensions that could not be traversed
without the powers ‘from below’. Supermind creates its own
conditions of manifestation and it has done so impeccably for the
Solar and Lunar Lines. No area of the labour has been left
unattended because the four planes of existence must be covered. In
fact, it is when the fourth plane needs to be integrated – the work
of our own times – that all the threads can be pulled together and
the ‘total Knowledge’, as the Mother intuited, can be given out.
Before all four became active it was not possible.The construction of the Bridge is the work of the Third
in the Solar Line. It can come into being and thus provide that
‘missing link’, only when perfect centering and alignment
have been yogically integrated into the Supramental Descent because
the Bridge traverses the chasm between those subtle and dense
worlds. This means that it is not an accomplishment external to
the deepest truth of material creation. It has to be rooted in
its deepest heart. Therefore the Centre is the field-boundary of the
Third. And the Mother’s plan is her legacy, with which she has
carried out that ‘future realisation’ just as it has been described
by the Mother. None of this has been kept secret. All along both the
Mother and Sri Aurobindo have noted exactly how the Supramental
Descent would take place. Particularly after 1956 there are numerous
dialogues in which the Mother makes her position clear, even to the
point of noting her ‘boundaries’. Time and again she records a difficulty in
remembering the experience or the work she was engaged in during the night, or even in a daytime vision somehow out of the body, such as
we have quoted in CIC 11. ‘Up there’ she often states that she
understands fully; but when she tries to bring it to her waking
consciousness here, that understanding eludes her.Those boundaries kept both the Mother and Sri Aurobindo
at labour in the ‘old creation’. This means that they worked from
above in the manner of a descent. It is only at the third and
fourth levels that the work from below begins because it is
then that the Bridge is brought into being and the ‘missing link’ of
the intermediate zone is forged. Time and space are central
ingredients at that point, unlike when the work was localised in the
subtle dimensions. Time and space are the tools for the
construction; nothing else is required. And when they have provided
the Bridge, the 9 can become the 10, and the work is done. Then
truly a new world is born, bearing very little relation to the old.
‘I had the impression – an impression which remained for quite a
long time, almost a whole day – of an extreme relativity – no, not
exactly that: the impression that the relation between this world
and the other completely changed the standpoint from which things
should be evaluated or appraised… (ibid).’

‘Come, let us slay him and end his course!’
A community that exists for this express purpose, whose members
incarnate because of a web of destiny that cuts across time and
space, must have the grace of revelation to carry it to the
fulfilment of that Purpose. This new creation is to become
established in the midst of a hostile world. It would be naïve to
ignore the fact; or to believe that a sentimental idea of
transforming the world so that it will accept this newness in its
midst is sufficient to protect its existence in the early stages.
The Mother’s Vision, on the other hand, provides the real
method of preservation in a hostile world. The method is to secure
an alignment of consciousness-being that places one beyond the reach
of hostile powers. We inhabit one universe within which are
numerous layers or dimensions. There are different ‘laws’ operating
in each of the layers. The reversal that takes place when the 9
becomes the 10 is that the individual moves into a dimension under
the rule of simultaneous time. This is the property of the
Solar World, the ancient swar. When Sri Aurobindo described
this passage as the most difficult, it is because once having made
the crossing into that ‘upper region’ new laws apply. One is out of
reach of all the powers of the lesser regions. We appear to occupy
the same physical space – but really we are ‘worlds apart’. 4Once having made the passage, the 9 becoming the 10, the realisation
can be expressed geometrically by the symbols Sri Aurobindo reserved
for the Truth-Consciousness. The symbol of the Sun
conveys the position perfectly, for it expresses two key elements of
the new consciousness: sphericality and simultaneity.Vedic civilisation was based on these principles. The
Laws of Correspondence and Equivalence can only function in a world
where this passage – the 9 to the 10 – stands as its foundation. For
in that passage, which takes us into the sanctum sanctorum of the
Mother’s temple, the aspirant indeed passes beyond the reach of
forces hostile to that realisation. Oneness then becomes the
operating principle; as such, all the elements participating in this
spherical wholeness become facilitators of the divine Purpose lodged
in that centre. It is then that we can affirm: All, positive
and negative, serve the purposes of the One.Further, all springs from within, all is determined by
that centremost source. This is the true path of non-violence which
simply means that nothing is imposed from outside, or enforced from
outside. The system so aligned would reject that imposition
precisely because it is not in harmony with the higher laws of the
emerging cosmos. Only that which resonates intrinsically to those
laws can find a place within the system.Thus is the new creation established on a planet that
continues to be under the rule of the Lords of Falsehood; and for
this reason the Mother’s chamber was a prize possession because had
it been constructed with the precision she expected, this
realisation of centering and alignment would have extended to the
entire community that is in some way connected to that Vision; and
as the boundaries were further extended, the whole of India and
finally the entire planet would have become integrated into this new
cosmos where each element is assured of its rightful place within
the whole. Nothing is rejected because oneness is the keyword, and
negative and positive serve that One.The heart of the matter is a realisation that can
hold, that can permit this ordering process, particularly
in the early stages when hostile forces and usurpers refuse to
loosen their grip and seek to annihilate the Child before a
threshold of maturity has been crossed and the development has
reached a point when masks can be drawn aside. Then, by this very
unveiling, deceptions are exposed. The Mother’s Vision
was the most coveted item from the first day she revealed
its
contents; lamentably, not by affirmation but by negation. As
we are
able to witness, even today those forces instinctively
hostile to
the Vision refuse to acknowledge her superior
accomplishment, while
still deceiving the public by insisting that what has been
built in Auroville is ‘the Mother’s original’. On such foundations of
falsehood, whatever arises can only collapse one day by the
weight
of its own contradictions.

‘I
have delved through the dumb earth’s dreadful heart’
Hinduism was founded on the realisation of convergence onto and into
a Point. Praises to Agni in the Rig Veda, for example, reflect this
obsession, if you will, with the upholding, supporting power that
Agni is known to be. Skambha is the fullest expression of that
‘support’, being the Cosmic Pillar upholding ‘all that moves and
breathes’. These are extremely profound praises, and the most
pregnant of all in the hymns to Skambha is, ‘…Though manifest, it is
yet hidden, secret’. In this passage we note the element that sets
Hinduism apart from Buddhism, for example, and all the later paths
and schools of yoga and philosophy that have significantly moved
away from the early moorings. Here the Rishi declares that Skambha
is manifest, even as it is a secret and hidden ‘support’. The
Rishi never needed to deny the reality of our material creation.
There was no need to flee the world in order to attain the solar
realm. All that the Aryan Warrior had to do was to continue the
process, which the months of the year would open, door after door,
until the border was reached at the 9th
stage/month of the journey. At that point a supreme effort was to
transpire where the Warrior must endeavour not to succumb to the
contracting, inward pressure, to seek escape from the material womb
of the Mother through either death or an obliteration of the
evolving consciousness and a severance with the nexus of our world,
the soul. The Hostiles seek to impose the old responses of a mortal
creation under the rule of Death, to abort the journey before the 9
becomes the 10 – indeed, the most dangerous part of the process,
just as Sri Aurobindo has noted. Sri Aurobindo notes this same peril when, in the 9thBook of his epic, the
Goddess is warned that she must not follow Death into his realm,
from where the human creature cannot return. She does so nonetheless
and thus Death is finally conquered in the next stage/Book, the 10th.
Other laws operate for the Warrior who has made the
perilous crossing successfully. He cannot be assailed because his
poise places him in a different dimension. Though here,
because of the new alignment he is protected by laws that operate
spherically and no longer linearly. There is simultaneity when the
Core has been forged. This is the essence of the Mother’s inner chamber; and
when that perfectly aligned central Core exists it becomes the
channel to effect changes throughout the world.

‘Heaven’s fire is lit in the
breast of the earth’
In dealing with the Veda the foremost problem is that we translate
or interpret the verses that are already several thousand years distanced
from the Vedic Age, very far removed from that consciousness. Not
only is there no evidence of the realisation of Skambha in any of
the texts of the intervening period, we also need to bear in mind
that nothing of the Vedic Consciousness exists today. It may be the
foundation of Hinduism, but that base is embedded in the soil
of the Ages. Indeed, many Astrological Ages have passed since the
Rishis walked the land. For instance, the word swar may well have a very
different meaning today and perhaps quite unrelated to swar
of old. All translators interpret the word to mean heaven. In
our minds this places the attainment of that coveted ‘solar world’
in some otherworldly dimension disconnected from our material domain
because we have been influenced by several thousand years of
nurturing just such a split. In these Chronicles we have moved
closer to the real sense of swar. It has to do with the
laws operating for the individual who has managed successfully
to make the crossing for the 9 to become the 10. This means
that the power of the Sun is the governing principle. In a sense we
can better understand the procedure when we realise that our solar
system consists precisely of 9 planets plus the Sun. The Sun is that
10th,
or, as described in the new cosmology, the Zero. It is either the 0
before the 1, or the 10 after the 9; or else it is the 19 after 18,
and so on, depending on the grade attained. The important point to note is that this is a rhythm
embedded in our very cells due to the measure of our solar system.
As a species we have evolved to the point where the system has
reached this measure in our awareness; we have devised technologies
to perceive this measure, which indicates that as a species we have
indeed crossed a very special – and dangerous – threshold. As a
collective, global experience we stand at the most vulnerable point,
similar to the Aryan Warrior when at that borderline crossing he
becomes the most vulnerable to the hostile forces, when he must live
the experience of the 9 becoming the 10. In other words, he reaches
the Sun. He enters the Solar World and with this passage he comes
under those higher Laws of a solar essence, the stuff of the Sun, as
it were. In ancient times this measure was known. The method for
knowing the sacred measure of things may have been different, but
the results were the same. This knowledge was subsequently lost but
the essence was nonetheless carried over into Hinduism by
maintaining that measure even though it did not seem to make any
sense. For example, Hindus incorporate the Lunar Nodes in the count
of planets, though it seems obvious that astrological observations
were advanced enough to know that they were not planets but orbital
intersections. Their incorporation was a means to keep the
measure of 9. And so it has been over the past thousand years,
in spite of the ridicule from science. The reason why it is
important to know the Measure is because it must form the basis for
the Laws of Correspondence and Equivalence to operate. But together
with this scale there must be the right application, the correct
time factor. And this is what was lost when the Capricorn
Solstice was torn from its position in the Warrior’s ‘journey’ to
the Sun, leaving him no gateway to Swar. With the hints provided by these 12 Chronicles, it can
be understood that the Rig Veda was a text composed by a
civilisation that utilised the sacred universal Language of ages
gone by, a Language whose alphabet has now been lost in the land
where it may have taken birth. And those of us today who have been
given the task of re-establishing the sacred Measures must indeed
have the forbearance and the fortitude of the Aryans of old so that
the journey is not brought to a halt at the threshold where the 9
becomes the 10. We may provide a practical example of the attainment by
referring to the two ‘lines’ which form the DNA of the New Way, so
to speak, and which were described by the Mother as dark blue and
golden yellow ‘numbers’. They were living things, the Mother
noted, as indeed they do refer to living entities. We use the
formula provided by Sri Aurobindo’s symbol at the heart of the
chamber’s Core, – 9/6/3/0-1. With this equation we can ‘update’ the
Veda, so to speak, and apply the Laws in the midst of our
very changed society, though respecting the original sense and
purpose in every way – perhaps even in a more complete way. And thus
we note that the Laws are indeed eternal. The question is
simply one of making that passage to the solar world; and then the
same secrets of old are unveiled as the very same operating
principles of our contemporary society, which appears to be very
much a denial of all that the ancient Veda held most dear. It must be borne in mind that the controlling element is
the Law. The realisation of Skambha provides the stable constant
whereby a central holding Point makes use of all circumscribing
conditionsto fulfil
its inherent Purpose – be this in 3000 BCE or today. The nature
of that ‘heaven’ is described accurately by the Solar Line itself on
the basis of Sri Aurobindo’s formula in that only the numbers of the
years of their births need to be calculated, not as in the
Lunar Line where the full count of day and month and year are
required. Thus Sri Aurobindo is 9 by virtue of the year, 1872 (=9).
Similarly, the Mother is 6 by virtue of 1878 (=6) alone; and the
third by her year count alone, 1938 (=3). These are the basic Laws,
though the full birth counts are utilised when the case demands. But
as a signature of a certain solar essence, this is the method.5

This 9/6/3 is then imprinted or stamped on the rest of
the process and its integrated elements. With the year count alone
we note that it is a purer substance, purer ‘tones’, as it were; and
this describes the true nature of swar, the solar world that
was the object of the quest. To enter that world death was not
required, only that the 9 become the 10. Then, as stated in the Rig
Veda, by the ‘recovery of the lost Sun in the revolution of the
year’ the victory was achieved. But Sri Aurobindo also noted that
the significance of the 9 and the 10 (rays) was more difficult to
understand, and which he was ‘not yet in a position to solve’. He
would first have to LIVE the experience, complete the passage
consciously and return in an unbroken line of time, always
respecting that harmony of the year.

‘He who I am was with me still’
This victory is not attainable through trance, samadhi or the
unconscious death we know today as a species. Above all, the Solar
World is not a heaven to be reached if we live a good life, obey all
the rules of moral conduct, follow the one Saviour, or the right
dogmas and rituals. Ironically, death ends the journey. The very
unconsciousness of the process makes the attainment impossible
since the entire quest is based on an increasing lucidity. Above
all, and we must be clear on this point, the Sons of Darkness do
have the power to assail the Warrior up to the portals of that
crucial passage, – but no further. Once the aspirant has crossed the
threshold, the great boundary beyond which lies that Solar World, he
or she can no longer be assailed because the Sons of Darkness have
no access to that kingdom. It is not in any dimension removed from
the physical, from the Earth on which we stand. Rather, we must
affirm that it is, for the first time, a real grounding but in
the core of this third planet from the Sun. The passage allows
us to know a psychic plenitude which is the birthright of all those
who take birth on Earth. On the other hand, the Lunar Line, those ‘dark blue
numbers’ of the night time sky of the Mother’s experience (CIC 9),
require the full count, as for example, Indira Nehru-Gandhi
(19.11.1917=3), the third of the Lunar Line. Though more numbers are
involved there is less power, or potency. The ‘substance of
the Sun’ is diluted; it cannot operate in full strength but must be
relayed, as it were, by the Moon. This function is described in the
Mother’s chamber by the circle of 12 columns surrounding the
centre-core. This is understandable since the Lunar Line is the
extension in the world of the Solar and is far more bound by the
rules of the society in which it must operate. The Solar,
on the other hand, wields the freer and more potent power of the Sun
itself, the pure substance or essence. And as time moves on and the
Work reaches the third level where the realisation of Skambha
becomes established, the centre that has thus come into being by
this sacred process can stand alone in the midst of a world in
chaos, firmly rooted on this planet. Provided, of course, that the 9
has become the 10. In this manner we have shown that even in the midst of a
society totally hostile to all that Skambha stands for, the work
is done because when the 9 becomes the 10 the laws of the Solar
World, of Swar, are brought into the play; and they
determine the unfolding in time of the Golden Seed of 9/6/3/0-1. The
attacks by the Sons of Darkness are relentless; but they are as if
shadowboxing because the object of the attack is simply not there,
though entirely grounded in the soil of this material world. Once
the 9 becomes the 10, once the passage to retrieve the ‘lost Sun’ is
victoriously accomplished, indeed the Sons of Darkness no longer
have the power to inflict wounds or to slay the Divine Child born of
this miraculous gestation of the 9. Death and his helpers have been
conquered, and this is the first step on the road to immortality –
today, as it was for the Rishis thousands of years ago. They are still with us, the luminous Immortal Ones, the
Ancients. When the 9 has become the 10, when Skambha is born in the
consciousness-being of the Seer, death is conquered just as Sri
Aurobindo described in the 10th Book of his epic. Because
the Rishis realised Skambha on this sacred soil they remain with us,
‘…though manifest, they are still hidden, secret’, but they are the
guiding spirits of the New Way, the luminous Ancient Ones. India has yet to awaken from a deep slumber. The whole
Earth sleeps, subjected to the same spell the Sons of Darkness have
cast. The time to awaken from this deep sleep has come because Skambha is realised
and provides ‘the centre that holds’.

‘This earth is ours, a field
of Night’
In 1976, when the final veil was drawn aside concealing the deepest
secrets of the Mother’s Vision, with it came the knowledge that the
nuclear issue would be centred on India and not between the then
super powers. This was inevitable given the distorted axis
as it was right at that time set in place in the Auroville
Matrimandir. At the time this seemed preposterous, yet this is what
the distortions revealed, a subject matter we will leave for another
time. Yet it has come to pass.All of this has to do with the final element in the
equation: 0-1. It is interesting that these numbers have become so
immensely significant in our contemporary civilisation. Indeed, when
in 1969 the Mother revealed her work with Number in the creative
zone of the physical, could she have imagined the scope and sweep of
her nighttime activities? Or that Number would dominate both the
mundane and the sacred in an unfolding that stood only a few years
in the future? Ground Zero is the codeword for what has come to be a
very controlled operation revealing the full extent of the
new Power working in the world. There are some revolutionary
functions of this Power which 9/11 demonstrated better than anything
we could describe in these pages. 6 The very
numbers of this now famous date reveal the ‘method to the madness’
since they are the full number-powers of the third and fourth of the
Solar Line. We must now speak of a world before 9/11, and
after.7From that immensely significant first 3-power year of
the new millennium, 2001, the new Power is fully operating in the
world. For indeed when the fourth level is opened there is a
directional shift and the vertical descent of contraction
changes to horizontal and expansion. This means that the
Third of the Line succeeded in bridging the past and future and
thereby in releasing the energies of the solar substance trapped by
the Panis in their nefarious hoarding ‘in the cave’, as the Vedic
myth describes, in order to pin our world down and to keep the Earth
subjected to the rule of the Dark Lord. Indeed, ‘in the revolution
of the year they broke Vala’, for we are dealing with Time’s energy,
the withheld portion due, precisely, to the lack of that Bridge. The
duty of the Third in the Solar Line is simply to construct that
bridge. The diagrams reproduced below express this perfectly.
The circle (Diagram A) is the year divided into four quarters,
resting on the Equinoxes (Dawn and Sunset) and Solstices (Midnight
and Midday) of the Tropical Zodiac. To be noted is that the last
quarter corresponds to Swar, but unlike our current
understanding, it is a part of that year. It is in fact the
most significant section of our calendar since the Makar Sankranti
opens the last quarter at the Capricorn Solstice, precisely when the
9 becomes the 10 – the 9th
sign allows entry to the 10th,
when the Aryan Warrior has not succumbed to the lure of the past,
the old, the known, and has conquered the Lord of the 8th,
Death. Swar is not ‘up there’, in some dimension removed from
Earth. It is here and always has been; but it is ‘closed to us by
the months and the years’, just as the Rig Veda describes. These are
aspects of the Veda that none have penetrated so far. Only when the
Supermind manifests can these recondite secrets be unveiled through
such simple diagrams.

Diagram
A.
Diagram B.

All diagrams are from The New Way, Vol. 2
(1981), Aeon Books

In achieving this, disbelief or even belief of the
multitudes is of no consequence. The only important matter is that
the work is done. 9/11 stands as testimony to the fact that a new
world is born wherein the power of simultaneous, whole time
has been injected into the system and our boundaries have been
consequently extended. It is thus the Core and the World now. The
old fields of the work remain trapped in fragmented time and
therefore cannot experience replenishment directly from the Source,
as indicated in ‘the symbol of the future realisation’. Now the
field has become the world. The first and second foundations have
played their roles as arenas where a special cluster of energies
would create conditions for the Bridge to come into being through
due processes of the supramental yoga. This is out of bounds for
those former fields because of ‘fragmented time’ – past/future
without the operative bridge of the present, without the 9
becoming the 10: the actualising power, the singlemost important
element in the Descent since it is only at the third level that time
can be made whole. In the language of the Rig Veda the ‘lost
Sun’ (Swar) is recovered and the cows/rays are released from
the cave of the Sons of Darkness. It has to be retrieved, time has
to be made whole, the circle must be completed now for the
entire species and not just for an elite. Life must change
for all living creatures on the basis of whole time: Swar
established on Earth by virtue of the newly released energies that
have been hoarded away, draining the species of the needed fuel to
make the crossing, as the diagrams reveal. The diagrams express the process perfectly. The circle
is the Year divided into four parts, marked off by the Equinoxes and
the Solstices (Diagram A). To be noted is the last quarter, the
topmost. It is the December Solstice that opens the gateway to
Capricorn and the Vedic Swar. In Diagram B we have what is called
‘Twashtri’s Bowl’, the Divine Architect of the Rig Veda, composed of
the four planes of existence, –Prithvi (Physical),
Antariksha (Vital), Dyau (Mental), and Swar (Supramental).
What is clear from the text is that this famed ‘bowl’ is another
description of the ‘vault of heaven’ or the cosmic surround. It is
the ecliptic which we divide into four parts based on the four
Cardinal directions; it is the same as Diagram A. Hence here we have
another correlation between the Rig Veda and the new cosmology. However, if we read the Rig Veda verses pertaining
to Twashtri’s Bowl, so far removed from the setting of the Vedic Age,
do we really ‘see’ what was so obviously common knowledge
then? And
yet this cosmic Bowl is still relevant today, especially
today when
everything around us seeks to deny what the Ancients knew so
well;
because though it is not explicitly stated, Twashtri’s Bowl
allows
us to appreciate what the cosmic foundation of the caste
system is
and why Krishna tells Arjun in the Bhagavad Gita that the
Chaturvarna issued from Him, according to the gunas
and the Works. It is all one. It is all expressive of that integral
cosmic vision. The Makar Sankranti opens the gates to that Solar
World, as the diagram discloses. And so, when that date is off,
access is automatically denied, for the Rig Veda itself declares
‘…these worlds are closed (or opened) to you by the months and the
years’. Through this simple diagram we can understand these
verses and we can appreciate that it is a very serious matter to
dismantle the Harmony and disengage ourselves from the rhythms of
the universe, especially in a civilisation that owes its existence
to the Mother, the womb of everything we know in our material
creation.

Diagram C.

The diagram helps us to concretise or to materialise what might
otherwise appear elusive since the subject it treats is so foreign
to our 21st Century way of life. We may pay lip service to the Veda,we
may chant the mantras and carry out the rituals, but unless the cogs
and wheels are set properly in place, time is not the propeller of
that Harmony and only cacophony can ensue. Then caste, for example,
becomes the opposite of what it was in the Vedic Age. Instead of an
enlightened and superior mode of societal order, it becomes the
instigator of constant discord and strife. Yet none penetrate
beneath those layers of soil that have closed out the true rhythms
of life and they simply allow themselves to be carried away by
political propaganda, be this of the left or the right, nothing of
which addresses the real cause. It is that the right Time Key must
be inserted into the chamber’s door so that then the Makar Sankranti
can allow us access to that sacred space where the great secrets are
held. The fourth quarter of the wheel/ecliptic, where the 9 becomes
the 10th
month/sign, is the lost Sun or Swar. This is the quarter
that is withheld and which the Aryan Warrior is set upon retrieving.
For the mortal human species the ‘journey’ ends with death,
unconscious, final, irrevocable. It is the 8th
Book of Savitri; it is the 8th
sign of the zodiac, Scorpio. But the student must ask why there are
four more signs/months after the 8th,
just a stage along the way? The journey does not end abruptly in
this unconscious slumber to await another birth and then to somehow
start again under the same condition of total unconsciousness. In
addition, the four remaining stages/months are those considered the
most dangerous because the Warrior must reverse the direction in
the 9th,
and in so doing
bring the Solar World into his/her conscious experience of life.
Time must be made whole. Its energy hoarded away in those
layers of unconsciousness must be resurrected to become the new base
of life.Swar is not any
‘heaven above’. Swar is simply the ‘lost Sun’ prisoner in the
cave of the Hostiles, the sons and daughters of the Mother of
Division, Diti. We enter those realms through ‘the months and the
years’ – today as in Vedic times, just as the Vedic Rishis of old
did. The time has come indeed to bring Swar upon Earth simply
by accepting the measure of our world, the truth thereby ‘of all
that moves and breathes’. There are no rewards or punishments, as
we would conceive, being so heavily conditioned by the dualism of
right and wrong. There is simply the act of choosing and the
processes our choices set in motion. Indeed, we reap what we sow. We choose
the old and fragmented time; we reject the luminous Bridge that
permits the 9thto become the 10th
– or the experience and subsequent release of time’s energy that is
trapped in the cave of the Past, hoarded by the Panis, and we
thereby agree to serve Diti, the Mother of Division, secure in her
castle of the Known. But we miss the wonders of the new and we
relinquish our right to choose the new way as it evolves in
time and carries us along as conscious instruments for the
new powers working in the world. When the 9 becomes the 10 and the release of the
cows/rays has been secured, when we are allowed access to the Solar
World, on this planet and nowhere else, we see this unfolding
as if from a luminous point at the heart of each created thing,
‘…though manifest, it is yet hidden, secret’. For it is the
common centre hidden in the heart of material creation, which
allows for order and not chaos. The realisation of the Core, just as the Mother has
described it, reverses the direction and establishes higher laws.
But the secret lies in the fact that these laws are the structure of
the Core itself, its most secret essence. On this basis the new
creation is joined across time and space by a Power operating from
that centre – the Core is the world. Nothing stands outside
of the extended boundary. But the most important factor to bear in
mind is that the unfolding is like a flower blossoming from a seed –
always inner to outer, point to circumference. There can be no
imposition when the higher laws operate since the Bridge is
constructed joining the three times and Skambha has come into being.
Any imposition from outside is a violence, including all our
cherished ‘new age’ formulas which have no relevance to the new
creation simply because they have no core foundation. At the same
time, without that realisation only chaos can prevail whose
definition is a revealing lack of a ‘centre that holds’, just as the
Mother’s Vision and plan describe. The Sons of Darkness quickly took possession of the
sacred Vision and distorted it to allow for their apparent victory.
What they did was simply to fall under a larger influence that then
used their resistance and denial to ‘further the purposes of the
One’. We now have a completed structure purported to be ‘the
Mother’s original’, but which these Chronicles have exposed as
made in man’s image and not at all in the Divine’s. But this
shadow does indeed serve the Work by offering the seekera
choice: this or that, the Mother’s or man’s. The Mother’s
carries us into the Solar World; the latter is ‘…the things men do; they do it
more or less well, and then it lives, and then it dies, and then it
changes, and then it becomes deformed, and then… – everything they
have done’…(17.1.1970).
The result stands before the world: a field where nothing of the
higher laws can operate. All is imposed from outside, and on an
increasing scale because the more power that is fed to the
periphery, the greater the inward collapse when there is no centre,
no ‘birth that fills the void’. The Mother knew what the consequences would be for the
field she brought into being in 1968. In the single paragraph quoted
above, she stated exactly what would happen, even noting that it
would be useless to say anything because ‘they would not believe
me’. We (MAC) have been witnesses since 1971, the foundation
year of the shadow temple, to this disbelief, because that is all
the Sons and Daughters of Darkness can offer even in the face of a
descent of Knowledge unparalleled since the Vedic Age: denial,
disbelief, negation, rejection of the light. This is their mantra.
They offer nothing in place of that denial
but their own limited perception and self-important ego demands as
an answer to the truth of the New Way presented in these Chronicles. The entire
Supramental Descent must be denied just so that their rule of
darkness can prevail, for not one has a realisation that builds. Not one
has even glimpsed that ‘future realisation’ which they sought to
destroy from the first moment the Mother revealed its contours. For
the Sons of Darkness instinctively knew that with the Mother’s
Vision in place there would be no possibility for their rule. And so
it did come to pass. But the powers of darkness are limited precisely by the
boundaries they set for themselves. They ‘see’ only what these
limitations permit them to see. They ‘see’ cement and steel as the
signal of a victory – when in effect as long as that cement and
steel structure stands, it is an everlasting testimony to their
failure. For with each passing year and each level of the
construction completed, they further expose the falsehood and seal
their ultimate demise.

‘We have been digging deep and
long’
The New Way has been born and, pari passu with that shadow
construction, it has grown. The divine Child is no longer a
vulnerable babe. These three decades have given the right amount of
time to establish the new field of the Work, to complete that
subterranean foundation by the aid of time’s released energies so
that now we emerge above ground level at the 0/1 point of space –
indestructible because ALL now serves the purposes of that One.The work accomplished by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
was entirely limited to the old creation. It was within that arena
that they were obliged to labour. This was a formidable task because
of the consolidation of yogas over the centuries that were in a
sense denials of that Ancient Way; and they had to be dealt with.
For this reason, though Sri Aurobindo intuited that a traditional
ashram structure was not appropriate for his work, he also knew that
it would provide a means to begin his ‘labour’.

Indeed, the divine Pair of 6 and 9 were engaged in digging through
the soil of the Ages in order to bring in a new foundation,
the demand of this new age; but it could not be accomplished
unless the old had been dealt with. Thus the poet sings, ‘We must
go deeper yet’, and his penetration took him far back through
the Ages until he reached the bedrock of the Sanatan Dharma and the
ancient Vedic Way. Therefore it is only Sri Aurobindo who has
unveiled the real ‘secret of the Veda’; but to reach that secret he
had to labour within the confines of the past. The Ashram
represented that field where best his ‘digging’ could be done.
While Sri Aurobindo reached the source of the Sanatan
Dharma, the Ancient Way, it was the Mother who actually did the
yoga that finally permitted that ancient Way to be reinstated.
The Divine Measure was her contribution, epitomised in her Vision
and Plan, her final legacy. She did not elaborate its meaning except
for the clues and confirmations she left us as aids along the way of
discovery, largely because she had to disclose her revelation to a
hostile world in attendance of the one whose duty it was to build
the Bridge, the Third of the Line. But from
that point onward the Mother did consolidate the Knowledge that
saved the Work, and with it we begin to fill in those dug-out
trenches, those new trenches of right measure, defined by the
fact that they did reach rock-bottom, as it were, because the
direction was the right one: not extended out and beyond and
therefore denying even the existence of the soil, but by accepting
the planet’s sacred place in the divine scheme and accepting the
hard labour of holding the penetrating direction in the midst of the
most ferocious denial one could experience: the denials offered by
the mighty realisers of the past, the great achievers – but all of
whom have carried civilisation away from the inward direction
and to a dissolution of any threads holding one to life on this
planet in time and space, the measures of our material world. The
Divine Measure re-established the ancient Way of acceptance of the
Earth and knowing that here, and only here in the System, a life
divine can be established. Thus, the trenches they dug were ‘new’ simply because of
this acceptance and the fact that they held firm in the face
of colossal denials worse than anything we have known even in
dealing with the Sons of Darkness in our times. For there can be no
harder task than to expose the great realisations that India has
become so renowned for and to state that – no, we have to go deeper
yet.

I saw
that a falsehood was planted deep
At the very root of things
Where the grey Sphinx guards God’s riddle sleep
On the Dragon’s outspread wings.

Our task thereafter was simply to lay the new foundation stones in
those sacred and cleansed trenches. This too required an intensive
labour to make sure that there would be ‘no mixture’, as the Mother
warned. And so it has been done. It is for this reason that the Mother commented in 1962
that one Avatar would not suffice. It would have to be a ‘line in
time’; one alone could not complete the task or bridge all the
planes of existence. To reach the deepest depths, certainly a ‘line’
would be required; and to attain the heights and join the two,
another pair is required otherwise the connecting Bridge cannot come
into being to allow those ‘radiant children’ to descend. This descent from above and rise from below
is the very essence of Sri Aurobindo’s own symbol: the two
interlaced triangles, one descending, the other rising, holding at
their core the sacred Formula in the central Supramental Square

I shall
leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you.

Matrimandir
Action Committee
March 2004

The End of Chronicles of the Inner ChamberUpdates will follow[See Update 1]

1 In the Core of the Mother’s chamber these Atharvaveda verses are
presented geometrically in the Pedestal: the Ray is ‘manifest’
as it enters the Shalagrama/chamber, but when it reaches the
Pedestal it is ‘hidden, secret’. Therefore it is a total
falsification of the Vedic sense in the Mother’s vision to have
altered the Pedestal on the basis of an architect’s whim as in
the Auroville Matrimandir, to have eliminated the Mother’s Vedic
knowledge in favour of these ‘mental ideas’. Above all, Sri
Aurobindo lived the experience which has been impeccably
rendered by the Mother, but then eliminated in the Auroville
rendition for no apparent reason other than an architect’s
‘mental idea’.

2In the Auroville Matrimandir nothing of this is possible. The
light is not concentrated; the alchemy in the Pedestal cannot
transpire so that the Cosmic Pillar ‘fills the void’ and becomes
ever after the support of our passage on Earth.

4Marshall Payne, an engineer, presented a theory in the latest
issue of Atlantis Rising (March-April, 2004) in his
article, ‘Psychokinesis vs. Gravity’, directly related to our
present discussion. He made an experiment with a group of
‘psychic lifters’ whereby his body weighing 45 kilos was raised
by the group merely with each of the four members holding an
index finger under him. The weight, he calculated, was reduced
to just five kilos, to allow for the phenomenon.
Afterwards, with a video recording of the
experiment, Payne sought the opinion of scientists graduated
from MIT. They had no answer according to the known laws of
physics. Finally Payne himself deduced that of all the factors
involved in gravity, the key issue, there was only one that
would or could be changed to bring the weight down. He writes,
‘The force of gravity is a function of the inverse square of
time. Somehow increase time in that equation and down goes the
force of gravity.’ He then questions whether a psychic can
affect time? Finally he reaches the conclusion that the
resolution lies in frequencies. He states, ‘Frequency is a
function of time’.
The method by which the paranormal works ...‘lies
in quantum physics…It makes sense that if a psychic has some
unknown but observed way of affecting time that quantum
mechanics will ultimately explain the phenomenon.’ And finally
Payne suggests that this was the manner in which the Great
Pyramid must have been built, and that those ancient wisemen
knew how to alter the frequency of those massive stones, similar
to his own body weight by the contemporary psychics.
Regarding the Mother’s Chamber and the new way
cosmology, in the exposition presented here of the passage to
Swar where higher laws operate, the key factor is also time.
One enters the zone of simultaneous time. The time factor
is indeed changed, as Payne suggests. And as explained in this
Chronicle, the laws governing the mechanism are thereby altered,
though the subject occupies the same physical dimension. Payne’s
work demonstrates how science is beginning to evolve deeper
thinking processes and reaching conclusions known from ancient
times but elevated in this Supramental Manifestation to greater
heights because of this universality. It is an example of how
when a breakthrough occurs today in processes of the Supramental
Yoga – such as the realisation of Skambha in the 1980s – there
will be a direct effect on secular science in the world at large
since the Core is the world.

5An example would be employing the complete birth dates to
emphasise the importance of the full count of one round in the
Precession of the Equinoxes, 25,920 years, as part of
‘refocusing the time lens’, one of the main duties of the Solar
Line. Thus the count of each member would be the Mother,
21.2.1878=2, Sri Aurobindo, 15.8.1872=5,
the Third, 5.1.1938=9, the Fourth, 26.11.1963=2.
Thus each of the members of the Line ‘becomes’ one of the
numbers in a round of the Precession of the Equinoxes: 25,920.
We need not belabour the point that such a combination is
complex and unusual. It reflects the precision of the
Supramental Descent which creates its own conditions of
manifestation.6See: September Trilogy, Plus One. Available through Aeon
Books and www.aeongroup.com.7An interesting
point to note is that there was a 9/11 prior to the now famous
date in 2001, directly connected to the work of the Solar Line,
- more specifically the 4th.
It was the deeply significant overthrow of President Allende in
Chile on the same date in 1973. In 1986, the 4th
wrote that he had chosen
Chile as his stage.
Regarding the coup itself, see September Letters by the
Third of the Line (1973), available through Aeon Books.